Jack Prelutsky Quotes

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
Jack Prelutsky

Evening, Two, After

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Jack Prelutsky

Poetry, Children, Words

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
Jack Prelutsky

Poetry, Fun, Blessed

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
Jack Prelutsky

Writing, Done, Accept

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Jack Prelutsky

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
Jack Prelutsky

Poetry, Read, Language

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
Jack Prelutsky

Good, Matter, Subject

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
Jack Prelutsky

Write, Few, Reasons

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky

Life, Around, Childhood

I'm never bored.
Jack Prelutsky

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
Jack Prelutsky

Working, Once, Eight

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Jack Prelutsky

Poets, Influenced, Diverse

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.
Jack Prelutsky

Best, Wife, Remember

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
Jack Prelutsky

Poetry, Smart, Enough

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
Jack Prelutsky

Perfect, Decided, Draw

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
Jack Prelutsky

Poetry, Ourselves, Ways

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
Jack Prelutsky

Children, Writing, Until

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky

Writing, Play, Problems

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky

Fun, Friend, Down

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.
Jack Prelutsky

Music, Fun, Writing

I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
Jack Prelutsky

Life, May, Different

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
Jack Prelutsky

Read, Reading, Books

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Jack Prelutsky

Poetry, Learned, Young

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
Jack Prelutsky

Book, Writing, Between

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 8, 1940

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